A retail field guide to reading options data, dealer positioning, and institutional flow across equities, rates, FX, commodities, and crypto.
Stage Like the Desk is the framework I use to read the tape the way the desk reads it. Before retail does. Every section answers the same three questions across each asset class: who is positioned, how the hedging is set, and where new money is moving.
You will leave with a Sunday Watchlist build you can run in under an hour, three trade plans (multi-week, swing, and intraday gamma regime), and a list of the mistakes that burn retail every cycle. This is a framework, not a signal service. If you have ever felt locked out of how markets actually work, this is the door.
Kai writes the weekly Relay and is building Stryk, the intraday version of this framework. If you read the guide and want it running live, that’s the product underneath.
Stryk runs the same three-layer read (positioning, dealer mechanics, and flow) in real time, with confidence-scored signals routed to your broker. Founding price is locked.
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